Best Site for Tab

Hey folks! What site for Bass tab have you found to be the most accurate, have the most content, and be the most user friendly? Doesn’t matter if it’s a free or paid subscription. Thank you!

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Big fan of Constantine’s Bass. Provides bass tabs and Guitar Pro files for most of his transcriptions. Incredibly, it is totally free, too!

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I usually just watch YouTube videos. Cover Solutions, Fusilli Jerry, and Tabs by Jason have all been very consistent for me

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I have a subscription to https://ultimate-guitar.com/ which has been pretty good for the music that I like to play. They should be doing a 80% off sale right now that makes the subscription reasonable.

If they have the song you want, you can play along with tabs or standard notation online, but I mostly download their Guitar Pro files if they are available for a song. GP is a stand alone program I have installed on my computer that I use for practicing. It splits the song into midi tracks, allows you to isolate tracks, change tempo, edit the song, as well as compose from scratch. One of my better purchases for software. https://www.guitar-pro.com/

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I agree. GP is good stuff. :+1:

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A big hell yeah for Constantine’s site.

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+1 for Constantine and Tabs by Jason
Also like Kashew for the quality of his tabs and his song selection.

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Samboat also puts out some good quality tabs

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I just use YouTube for now and like Samboat and CoverSolutions.

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Just go to “transcriptions” page. Free downloads with watermark.

https://basslessons.be/index.php

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Not to pick nits, but these are not tab (at least the ones I looked at). If the OP is open to standard notation, then great, but I wouldn’t consider that a tab site…

Perhaps you should not pick nits. Actually, if you scroll through most, the tabs are after standard notation.

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A mix of all the above but check a few sources for the song of interest and give it a look/play/listen - no one site is perfect, and some songs are better on different sites or YouTubes.

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I think Songsterr is generally the best for free tabs. Better than U-G anyway. Plus, they use the modern tabs format with timing info.

They are all going to have issues though, yeah. Same goes for free online sheet music (except in my experience, it’s sadly often even worse for quality).

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Ah - good point - my bad… Mea culpa.

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Actually, my bad. I apologize. My response should have started after the first sentence. Enjoy.

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Mentioned a few times in transcription threads… https://www.tomreadbass.co.uk/transcriptions are good and free.

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I’ve used many of the above suggestions and this one as well. As with many tabs, some are not correct but it gets you in the ballpark.

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Thank you one and all for your responses! This gives me many resources to try.

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Is there some place where you can search to see what songs Guitar Pro has? I looked and couldn’t find it.

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